Question follow-through · 4050
State Retirement Pensions: Uprating
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to negotiate a reciprocal agreement with the Australian government on uprating state pensions.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to negotiate a reciprocal agreement with the Australian government on uprating state pensions.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
There are no plans to negotiate a new reciprocal social security agreement with Australia. UK State Pensions are payable worldwide, without regard to nationality, and are only uprated abroad where there is a legal requirement to do so - for example in cou...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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